Psycho III (1986)
Feb 8, 2002Psycho Sequel
Well worthwhile Psycho sequel directed by Anthony Perkins himself who makes an assured, even at times dazzling debut. The film has a playfulness and outrageousness that quite takes you aback
Lee Garlington
Cobra (1986)
Apr 26, 2001Action/Cop vs Serial Killer Army
From Cannon Films, a Sylvester Stallone action vehicle with a near-fascistic view of law enforcement that proves to be an absurd comic-book of a film that is preposterously entertaining
Field of Dreams (1989)
Feb 15, 2002Mystical Baseball Field with Ghost Players
Beautiful fantasy where Kevin Costner hears a voice that directs him to build a baseball diamond in his cornfield where dead players to return to life. A genteel fantasy filled with nostalgia for lost Americana and the 1960s
Meet the Applegates (1991)
Jul 3, 2000Family of Insects/Black Comedy
Rather funny satiric comedy about a family of insects who set up house in suburbia posing as humans
Sneakers (1992)
Jun 22, 1999Hi-Tech Thriller
Standout thriller set around the world of computing, one of the earliest techno-thriller to adapt to the new internet age
The Hot Chick (2002)
Feb 2, 2003Gender Exchange Comedy
Adam Sandler produced film that is a variant on the bodyswap standard in which Rob Schneider and Rachel McAdams switch bodies. Much crass humour ensues in between a good-naturedly all-inclusive message
The Sum of All Fears (2002)
Aug 25, 2002Nuclear Terrorism/Tom Clancy Adaptation
Fourth of the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan films, which performs a confusing continuity reset to recast the role with the younger Ben Affleck. The film's release was delayed by 9/11, which makes the plot about nuclear terrorism on US soil seems absurdly tame in retrospect
Mortuary (2005)
Nov 18, 2007Creature in the Crypt/Body Snatchers
Another effort in the sad slide into shabby amateurishness that marked that latter years of Tobe Hooper's career, a muddled effort set around a mortuary involving body-snatching fungus and deformed relatives in the crawlspaces
Pulse 2 (2008)
Jul 8, 2026Soul-Sucking Creatures from the Internet
This was the first of two sequels to the Wes Craven scripted Pulse, the English language version of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s intensely spooky film about ghosts from the internet
Mockingbird (2014)
Jan 7, 2015Found Footage/Home Invasion Thriller
Bryan Bertino who made the impressive home invasion thriller The Strangers and this was his follow-up. This was held up so long in release that its originality has been rendered everyday by others milking the Found Footage genre
House By the Lake (2017)
Jun 1, 2020Girl's Sinister Imaginary Companion
A strange film about parents who become concerned when their young daughter insists she has an imaginary fish man companion. This arrives at a head-scratchingly WTF ending